proposal: second style for quartertone accidentals

[Orm Finnendahl]

Hi,

for a while I wanted to suggest adding the option of using a different
style for microtone accidentals. I personally prefer the use of up or
down arrows on extended vertical lines of the standard accidentals
(see attached example). The advantage of this style is a better
differentiation of enharmonic spelling which makes reading and
performance better suited to the way those pitches are produced on
different instruments or the musical context (like in the spelling of
chords). In this case an extended syntax for the accidentals would
make sense.

I give two examples with the different enharmonic spellings and the
proposed lilypond syntax:


1. pitch: quarter tone below a

glyphs                                    lilypond syntax
-----------------------------------------------------------------

"a" with natural with arrow down          aeh
"a" with flat sign with arrow up          aesih
"g" with sharp sign with arrow up         gisih

2. pitch: quarter tone above a

glyphs                                    lilypond syntax
-----------------------------------------------------------------

"a" with natural with arrow up            aih
"a" with sharp sign with arrow down       aiseh
"b" with flat sign with arrow down        beseh


I designed the glyphs in a postscript font and can provide them if
anybody is interested (they stem from a very old version of the
Petrucci font and probably will have to get adjusted to the more
beautiful Feta glyphs, but the basic work is done).

What do you think?

Yours,
Orm

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